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King on House women, leadership

It’s a consolation prize of sorts for Miller, who lost to Rep. Mike McCaul (R-Texas) in a three-way race for the Homeland Security chairmanship. In that race, Miller told POLITICO she was making the pitch that she was “tough enough” to chair the panel charged with overseeing the nation’s vast homeland security infrastructure.

There’s an opportunity to have another female chair: Boehner has yet to appoint the top Republican on the House Ethics Committee.

The chairs of the major House committees, which were announced earlier this week, will all be white men.

The administration panel chairmanship opened after Rep. Dan Lungren (R-Calif.) lost his reelection bid to Democrat Ami Bera.

In other words, she is passed over for the Homeland Security chair where she would play with the big boys and given the equivalent of the Officer Manager position. Once again the GOP leadership is clueless. Any woman who has ever worked for a corporation knows that game only too well. Give her a title but for heaven's sake don't give her any real power!

This is hilarious, a woman was actually appointed to anything in the GOP. Gee, maybe the Republicans are learning. Oh wait, she is the sole woman. I guess that this lady has the election and a spineless Speaker Boehner to thank. Its a start, now where are the token blacks, hispanics and asians? I know, appoint an openly gay person. The GOP is pitiful. Just compromise and negotiate a way out of the fiscal cliff for now. You can start on the next election after that. Speaker, I will financially and physically support whomever runs against you in 2014.